Pitchfork murders | |
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Part of the Troubles | |
Location | Aughnahinch, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland |
Date | 23 October 1972 4:20 p.m. |
Attack type | Stabbing |
Weapon | Bowie knife |
Victims | Michael Naan and Andrew Murray |
Perpetrators | British soldiers Stanley Hathaway and John Byrne |
The killings of Michael Naan and Andrew Murray, better known as the Pitchfork murders, was the killing of two Catholic civilians in October 1972, by two British Army soldiers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.